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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: [RFC 3/8] eal: warn if thread name is truncated
Date: Tue,  2 Dec 2025 09:24:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251202172626.283094-4-stephen@networkplumber.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251202172626.283094-1-stephen@networkplumber.org>

Thread name is very short 16 characters and therefore the name
dpdk-worker-%d will overflow with more than 9999 worker cores.
Error should be non-fatal since name only matters for debug.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
 lib/eal/linux/eal.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/eal/linux/eal.c b/lib/eal/linux/eal.c
index b12f325ddd..d848de03d8 100644
--- a/lib/eal/linux/eal.c
+++ b/lib/eal/linux/eal.c
@@ -863,8 +863,10 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 			rte_panic("Cannot create thread\n");
 
 		/* Set thread_name for aid in debugging. */
-		snprintf(thread_name, sizeof(thread_name),
-			"dpdk-worker%d", i);
+		ret = snprintf(thread_name, sizeof(thread_name), "dpdk-worker%d", i);
+		if (ret >= RTE_THREAD_NAME_SIZE)
+			EAL_LOG(INFO, "Worker thread name %s truncated", thread_name);
+
 		rte_thread_set_name(lcore_config[i].thread_id, thread_name);
 
 		ret = rte_thread_set_affinity_by_id(lcore_config[i].thread_id,
-- 
2.51.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-12-02 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-12-02 17:24 [RFC 0/8] first steps in fixing buffer overflow Stephen Hemminger
2025-12-02 17:24 ` [RFC 1/8] eal: use C library to parse filesystem table Stephen Hemminger
2025-12-02 17:24 ` [RFC 2/8] hash: fix possible ring name overflow Stephen Hemminger
2025-12-02 17:24 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2025-12-02 17:24 ` [RFC 4/8] eal: avoid format overflow when handling addresses Stephen Hemminger
2025-12-02 17:24 ` [RFC 5/8] ethdev: avoid possible overflow in xstat names Stephen Hemminger
2025-12-02 17:24 ` [RFC 6/8] efd: avoid overflowing ring name Stephen Hemminger
2025-12-02 17:24 ` [RFC 7/8] eal: add check for sysfs path overflow Stephen Hemminger
2025-12-02 17:24 ` [RFC 8/8] eal: limit maximum runtime directory and socket paths Stephen Hemminger

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